Re: [uf-discuss] species microformats OpenSearch

2006-12-07 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shorthouse, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ou wrote (END) [David Shorthouse wrote:] Please note my earlier comment on quoting formats. And this is exactly what uBio already provides with their LinkIT tool (http://names.mbl.edu/tools/linkit.php) and essentially

Re: [uf-discuss] species microformats OpenSearch

2006-12-07 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shorthouse, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Please note my earlier comment on quoting formats. [David Shorthouse wrote:] Sorry, you'll just have to tolerate it. Until Microsoft updates Office 2007 to deal with this possible bug with text email, I refuse to install 3rd

Re: [uf-discuss] species microformats OpenSearch

2006-12-07 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shorthouse, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes my forum (http://canadianarachnology.dyndns.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t= 118) It appears that Davis has now wiped the discussion of microformats from the forum on his website! -- Andy Mabbett Say NO! to

Re: [uf-discuss] species microformats OpenSearch

2006-12-07 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shorthouse, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes my forum (http://canadianarachnology.dyndns.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t= 118) It appears that David has now wiped the discussion of microformats from the

Re: [uf-discuss] species microformats OpenSearch

2006-12-06 Thread Scott Reynen
On Dec 6, 2006, at 1:14 AM, Shorthouse, David wrote: To that end, I now make use of uBio LSIDs marked-up species pages with: h1span class=species urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2029133Theridion agrifoliae/span Levi, 1957/h1 .in the hopes that uBio's and other LSIDs will eventually contribute

Re: [uf-discuss] species microformats OpenSearch

2006-12-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shorthouse, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I am a relative newcomer to microformats and come with a biological sciences background so am most interested in the species microformat group of discussions (http://microformats.org/wiki/species). It's good to have you

Re: [uf-discuss] species microformats OpenSearch

2006-12-06 Thread Benjamin West
.could ever contribute to the semantic web in a meaningful way will stand the test of taxonomic revisions I agree with this. It's unclear to me how the current proposal even relates to the research gathered, and what use cases it might support. Typically, microformat proposals are heavily

RE: [uf-discuss] species microformats OpenSearch

2006-12-06 Thread Shorthouse, David
.could ever contribute to the semantic web in a meaningful way will stand the test of taxonomic revisions I agree with this. It's unclear to me how the current proposal even relates to the research gathered, and what use cases it might support. Typically, microformat proposals are heavily

Re: [uf-discuss] species microformats OpenSearch

2006-12-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shorthouse, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Rod Page and I with contributions from Charles Roper have been having an interesting discussion about OpenSearch on his iSpecies (http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/) blog (http://ispecies.blogspot.com/) as it

Re: [uf-discuss] species microformats OpenSearch

2006-12-06 Thread Scott Reynen
On Dec 6, 2006, at 5:35 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: .could ever contribute to the semantic web in a meaningful way will stand the test of taxonomic revisions I agree with this. You may well be right - but since dealing with taxonomic revisions is entirely outside the scope of uFs, so what?

Re: [uf-discuss] species microformats OpenSearch

2006-12-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Dec 6, 2006, at 5:35 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: .could ever contribute to the semantic web in a meaningful way will stand the test of taxonomic revisions I agree with this. You may well be right - but since dealing with

Re: [uf-discuss] species microformats OpenSearch

2006-12-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Benjamin West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes What market? Market may have several meanings: * the mindshare of developers * documents on the web * formats to represent data 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose

Re: [uf-discuss] species microformats OpenSearch

2006-12-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shorthouse, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The advantage of the LSIDs is that they may act as a mapping catalog that is capable of drawing the lines from old names (or even current names that have not been fully accepted) to current nomenclature. Merely using